Published: 11th September 2010
DOI: 10.4204/EPTCS.34
ISSN: 2075-2180

EPTCS 34

Proceedings 5th International Workshop on
Logical Frameworks and Meta-languages: Theory and Practice
Edinburgh, UK, 14th July 2010

Edited by: Karl Crary and Marino Miculan

Preface
Karl Crary and Marino Miculan
Invited Presentation: Typed metaprogramming with effects
Chung-chieh Shan
1
Invited Presentation: The Practice and Promise of Substructural Frameworks
Frank Pfenning
3
Explicit Substitutions for Contextual Type Theory
Andreas Abel and Brigitte Pientka
5
Generating Bijections between HOAS and the Natural Numbers
John Tang Boyland
21
Closed nominal rewriting and efficiently computable nominal algebra equality
Maribel Fernández and Murdoch J. Gabbay
37
Pure Type Systems without Explicit Contexts
Herman Geuvers, Robbert Krebbers, James McKinna and Freek Wiedijk
53
A Monadic Formalization of ML5
Daniel R. Licata and Robert Harper
69
Representing Isabelle in LF
Florian Rabe
85
Pattern Unification for the Lambda Calculus with Linear and Affine Types
Anders Schack-Nielsen and Carsten Schürmann
101

Preface

Type theories, logical frameworks and meta-languages form a common foundation for designing, implementing, and reasoning about formal languages and their semantics. They are central to the design of modern programming languages, certified software, and domain specific logics. More generally, they continue to influence applications in many areas in mathematics, logic and computer science.

The Logical Frameworks and Meta-languages: Theory and Practice workshop aims to bring together designers, implementers, and practitioners working on these areas, and in particular about:

LFMTP workshops continue the workshop series on logical frameworks and meta-languages, which started in 1999. In 2006, the International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-languages (LFM) merged with the workshop on MEchanized Reasoning about Languages with variable BInding (MERLIN). A first edition of LFMTP was held at FLOC’06.

This volume contains the final and revised versions of the papers presented at LFMTP 2010, which was held on July 14, 2010 in Edinburgh (UK). LFMTP 2010 was part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2010), and affilated with LICS 2010.

Submitted papers have been reviewed by the Programme Committee, which was composed by Stefan Berghofer, Yves Bertot, Karl Crary (co-chair), Amy Felty, Marino Miculan (co-chair), Benjamin Pierce, Andy Pitts, Carsten Schürmann. The Committee members have been helped by the following sub-reviewers: Pietro Di Gianantonio, Brian Huffman, Jordi Levy, Dan Licata, Alberto Momigliano, Frank Pfenning, Jason Reed, Ivan Scagnetto, Anders Schack-Nielsen.

The workshop was attended by about 40 researchers. Beside the contributed talks, we also had the pleasure of two invited lectures, by Frank Pfenning and Chung-chieh Shan.

LFMTP 2010 was made possible by the contribution of many people. We thank the PC members, the invited speakers, the participants to the workshops, and all the authors who submitted papers for consideration for this workshop. We would like to thank also the referees for their effort in preparing careful reviews.

Karl Crary, Marino Miculan
LFMTP 2010 co-chairs


Typed metaprogramming with effects

Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers University)

Typed metaprogramming with effects

Metaprogramming is a popular and effective way to reconcile modularity with efficiency in software. For example, a modular metaprogram for the Fourier transform can generate a variety of implementations optimized for different problem sizes, number representations, and processor architectures. Metaprogramming is also a widespread phenomenon in human language, especially when agents ascribe beliefs to each other. For example, people quote fragments from each other’s utterances in order to curate meanings from each other’s minds.

In both settings, it is natural to extend the metalanguage with side effects, in particular delimited control effects. This extension lets metaprograms take advantage of the fact that the binding context of the object language often follows the evaluation context of the metalanguage. Such a combination of metaprogramming and effects provides a benchmark problem for mechanized metatheory.

To assure that object expressions stay well-formed, we impose a type system on metaprograms that incorporates two ideas from the literature: answer types, which track delimited control effects, and environment classifiers, which track object variable references. Unlike previous systems, this system lets effects reach beyond binders, so it supports loop-invariant code motion and inverse quantifier scope.


The Practice and Promise of Substructural Frameworks

Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University)

The Practice and Promise of Substructural Frameworks

Logical frameworks are based on the premise that fundamental concepts and constructions in the definition of logics and programming languages should be directly supported in the framework. For LF, these include variable binding, substitution, as well as parametric and hypothetical judgments. Absent are intrinsic notions of state, consumable resource, or concurrency, which appear to be similarly fundamental. Integrating these into logical frameworks has led to the development of substructural frameworks such as LLF (linear) [1], RLF (relevant) [3], OLF (ordered) [7], CLF (concurrent) [132] and HLF (hybrid) [9]. Recent implementations such as Lollimon [4], Celf [10], and HLF [9] have allowed us to gain some experience with using these languages [814151112].

A promising related specification technique for programming languages is substructural operational semantics (SSOS) [56]. We illustrate this technique and the logical framework features that support it through several sample programming constructs. We also sketch our current approach to analyzing such specifications, which has been the most challenging part in the development of the next generation of logical frameworks.

Acknowledgments

This talk presents joint work with Jason C. Reed and Robert J. Simmons.

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